Word: woefulness
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...made his name, poems of smoke and steel and corn-husking smarting with truth and vitality. Poems have been first part on his programs but songs have come before the end. He pulls up a chair, takes his guitar, strums a measure or two and then will come the woeful, repetitious story of a moaning Carolina Negro, the whoopees of a rancher. Some will come to him after the recital, and ask him if he has ever heard "the other version of that last one he sang," or tell him he should go down to the end of the town...
...sporting scribes of the day testify that Yale showed a woeful ignorance of the rules, and ascribes to that fault the overwhelming defeat which was her portion at the hands of Harvard. Four field goals and four touchdowns told the story of the Crimson's superiority. Yale was held scoreless...
...neglect. ?The play had successful short runs last season in Philadelphia, Washington, Boston. It was conceived and written originally by Frank C. Reilly, whose regular business is electric signs, and rewritten by Cosmo Hamilton, British playwright. More than 20 years ago, tall De Wolf Hopper appeared in a woeful musical comedy based on the Pickwick Papers...
...scored 76, next round, then a woeful 84, finished with an 80, tied for sixth place. Sarazen won the tournament by eleven strokes with 290. Potter retired to his water hazards. Experts are on the watch for his next tournament. He is only...
...Story, told episodically, is perhaps more woeful than necessary. John Rain, the son, after a gassing in France, goes away with the married daughter of his father's one scarlet woman, Tannis. On their westbound train it is revealed that John will probably die soon of tuberculosis. Rain Sr., discovers the flatulence of his faith, but, lacking courage to start afresh, keeps his job and remains, like his congregation, sheepish and grey of soul...